president putin signs a bill which includes a ban on americans adopting russian children the legislation has some place russian public opinion but the authorities say it's aimed at the from the old adoption system and the white. house massacre shopping spree us gun stores are flooded by customers two weeks after a tragic school shooting in connecticut as a bronco ban was a threat to bonfire on spotify is not. the coffee we just ended the coffee right. through to nasty weather we'll look at why many britons including more millionaires than ever want to leave the u.k. in the near future.

international news live from moscow this is us he was me you know hello and welcome to the program. presentation has signed off a bill aimed at u.s. citizens accused of abusing the human rights of russians salat and place and behind americans adopting russian children restrictions came about after washington introduced a travel and financial sanctions against russian officials it alleges i involved in rights violations. has the story for us earlier the president said he saw no reasons why the bill shouldn't be passed and signed it on the next day after the final draft got into his office and now starting from the first of january american citizens suspected off the rights of the russian citizens will be banned from entering russia the bill also introduces financial sanctions and restrictions on

n.g.o.s and commercial organizations with foreign sponsors and also the article which has been talked about the ban for all americans to adopt russian children for the past few weeks russian society and even the political leaders have been split over the issue and there have been many cases of abuse of russian children and sometimes even deaths after they're brought to the united states and russian president has been saying that this bill is not aimed against people or children but it's aimed against the american system due to a lack of a proper legal reaction from american authorities to these cases including. heavy jail sentences and other problem is that russian officials are often not even able to monitor what happens to russian children after they're brought to the u.s. one of the reasons behind so much debate around the ban is also that many people are concerned with the state of orphanages in russia and along with signing this

bill the president also releasing the aimed at improving the lives of orphans in the country lawmakers from the beginning have been saying that this is a response to the magnitsky act bans passed recently by american lawmakers said a game of russian more of work for foreign investment funds he was suspected of money laundering but died in prison. before a court could make a decision on his case is seen by many in the west especially united states as a victim of various human rights violations and the magnitsky act basically gives the green light for sanctioning a russian official suspected in the us of being connected with human rights violations in moscow by many officials as another russian law because it's really not clear on what grounds this. is being put together and also we know that some of the names are going to be classified all together. and as the investigation continues into the death of sergei magnitsky in prison and moscow court has

acquitted a jail doctor of negligence leading to loss of life and live russia's presidential council on human rights concluded magnitsky had been severely beaten and denied medical treatment while he was held in prison but they judge said she found no evidence that the doctors actions caused the lord's death but meets his family promise to appeal the ruling critics of the new adoption ban say it harms russian orphans chances of a better heat but a former director of the american adoption congress told us that tracking how russian children are being treated in the u.s. is all but impossible. a lot of the cases have gotten very very light sentences for the caretakers whether forster or adoptive of russian children here in the united states but we certainly have no idea how many children are enduring abuses surviving abuses of all kinds but children that died at the hands of their adoptive

parents were tortured in some horrendous ways they were sexually abused they were burnt they were starved they were killed ever any conceivable kind of torture one human being could inflict on another was done to these children so these were the parents that were caught and prosecuted nineteen how many more are there is there's absolutely no way of knowing the united states has no system of follow up on adoptions once an adoption is finalized the child is considered as if born to that family. have skyrocketed in the u.s. after barack obama urged a ban on some firearms in the wake of this sunday school massacre. i can explains now that has backfired on them about two weeks ago actually on this particular wall here. a r.'s four zero zero zero for rows across. with everything going on

in politics right now with the possible ban and everything everyone is living in. purchasing right away gun stores all across the u.s. are reporting record sales. just two weeks after the tragic shooting at the elementary school in newtown americans are scrambling to buy the same type of weapon that adam lanza used in the connecticut shooting plus high capacity magazines and a lot of them panic buying trigger it out of fear that the white house is out to ban the weapons but this time the words need to lead to action no a r fifteen for this customer all sold out at the store while prices on line have gone through the roof have been going for a thousand and fifteen hundred dollars to twenty five hundred three thousand dollars even in some cases it's just the most amazing gun buying spree i've ever

seen so many gun retailers now quite cynically refer to the administration's ban talking as the obama gun stimulus that's how good it's been for their business so how do you go from a president with a tough gun control agenda to someone gun dealers call the greatest gun salesman in america manufacturers of semi-automatic rifles report that their market has grown thirty percent over the last four years states like north carolina iowa you have seen a one hundred percent increase in gun sales over the same period in the wake of the tragedy in newtown one of the country's biggest ammunition suppliers said they sold more than three years worth of magazines in just three days. although president obama himself has so far failed to act on his pledge to ban assault weapons his words have certainly provoked action just not the type you may have wanted or someone they say is against were. doing a great job for us. maybe they should be

a third term in order to sell even more weapons many dealers hype up gone apocalypse an aerial so the band they were there to know which. relate to start. actually started. well but many of them don't actually see any drastic changes happening any time soon after all and it's significant gun control measures and up in the past ultimately clashed with the second amendment of the constitution and were subsequently scrapped. were junior i'm going to check on. and one group in time has come up with their own unique way to prevent more shootings by introducing even more guns to schools by giving them to teachers and the gun rights on to because have decided to launch shooting lessons for teachers in case of an imagined say let us know what you're saying by logging on to the dot com and giving us your opinion in the comments section of your. note.

iran is holding a fresh round of naval drills in the strait of hormuz one of the world's busiest oil and gas shipping routes the six day war games come as the west systematically builds up pressure on iran over its nuclear program and amid speculation that a military confrontation professor sayed mohammad marandi from the university of tehran has explained why the rains don't think an attack is possible any time soon . in the sense that western countries are brutal and civilized enough to carry out an attack i think that that's clear to the iranians the fact that western countries are imposing sanctions and an embargo on it on iran they're trying to prevent iran

from even importing and exporting medicine and food stuffs by blocking the central bank and there are shortages of some medicines right now in iran and people have died so the fact that the western countries are willing to kill ordinary people and to make people suffer i think makes it clear that the idea of carrying out an attack on iran is something that they would contemplate if they could but i think on the other hand the iranians believe that western countries are much weaker today than they ever were before the defeat in iraq and afghanistan the setbacks in. that israel had in lebanon and gaza make as well as the economic crisis in europe in north america make it highly unlikely but the iranians have prepared themselves and i think that itself has been it took deterrence to war so the i think in general the iranians feel that a military assault on iran aggression would be highly unlikely this is our c.n.n. still has figured this out as syria dive deeper into conflict with take

a look at the key developments in this civil war over the last year that's been elsie's recalled later this. month with the sunni shia divide in iraq leading to a rise in violence we'll get expert opinion on the way it's heading and of what the potential fallout of the growing sectarian conflict could be. a growing number of wealthy britons plan to wave goodbye because the u.k. over the next two years and move their lives and money elsewhere more than a fifth of the country's millionaires are considering emigrating according to a recent survey by lloyds t.s.b. international bank while he's twenty one of our explains what exactly is making the reach part of the luxury luggage. in the dismal whereas that's reportedly the overwhelming reason for why one in five british million as a considering upping sticks and leaving the country now those reasons are followed closely by the high rate of crime in the u.k.

and antisocial behavior and then another reason why they might want to leave is the high cost of living here in the u.k. and only in fourth place to my why they might might want to leave is the high rate of personal taxation now where are they going well top of the list of destinations is france it's nearby and it's warmer weather and same goes for spain which is the other place where they're all thinking of flocking to followed by the usa now we didn't manage to track down any millionaires but we hit the streets of london to talk to the ordinary londoners to ask whether they were considering upping sticks and leaving as well and it looks like most of them agree with the millionaires so let's take a listen to what they told us you consider leaving the u.k. . what reason to climb a. second the dark vision. would you consider leaving the u.k. and leaving somewhere else i'm going to do really what are the reasons my wife. my

children but also the expense here looks like the middle class professionals are the ones who are actually packing their bags and leaving a recent report by the home office said that more and more middle class we professionals are actually packing their bags and opting to continue their careers elsewhere and for them the main reason is the high rate of personal taxation so it's the millionaires are the ones that don't like the rain then is the middle class professionals the senior managers the academics the scientists that are actually continuing their careers abroad and a lot of business leaders are saying that if the high rate of personal taxation isn't cut it's going to lead to a brain drain for the u.k. in the future so something that's very worrying for politicians to consider here. we'll be back with more news on her shoulder break.

if you're from my generation or younger and you were born into the one percent that i have a lot of college debt i sure do you know the deal used to be that you paid a significant amount for education but in turn that gave you a much higher salary later but now the system works in reverse many young americans studied very hard to not make any money at all around nine percent of americans with student loans have defaulted and at least nine but maybe up to eighteen percent are ninety days late with their payments given the situation the people at u.c. berkeley were nice enough to give away a million dollars in scholarships for everyone everyone that's an illegal immigrant yeah that's right if you're born in america then pay till you die but jump the border and enjoy the red carpet education treatment the people who will be getting

the scholarships are mostly the children of illegal immigrants who spent many of their formative years in america and yeah i can see the logic that could be hard for them to get an education when they are when they aren't citizens but they came into the country illegally it isn't taxpayers jobs to help them but wait berkely a surprise of an institution so i guess they can give out the money to whoever they want whenever they want however they want but berkeley management if you're watching this i would really appreciate if you chose some financial mercy to american citizens it isn't like they don't need the help but that's just my opinion .

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i think. this is as he welcomed back thousands that sunni muslims in iraq have joined process against the shia led government the rallies are the largest shows public anger in a week of demonstrations that flared up after their arrest of a sunni finance minister's bodyguard's many sunni's whose community dominated iraq until the fall of saddam hussein ten years ago a keys that share also receive the refusing to share power and let's not talk to ryan dreier our iraqi american blogger and political analyst welcome to the program so they share a city six tarion strive we're seeing in iraq today is just part of

a wider conflict which has recently seen some of its worst violence since the iraq war why now. i think it's getting to it's was the degree in iraq contemporary history. before two thousand and three there were no sectarian divisions like we miss today. the majority of people who are on the country tend to be more secular and even those who worst enemies or shiites did not see the identify with this sect mainly and now unfortunately there are divisions that are very clear in the country and these divisions are. political and economic and even geographic people were moved from around the country in a decade of sectarian and ethnic cleansing and i think what's going in syria it's having an impact on iraq. sectarian divisions in syria

there are key and the iranian government. position the guardian of what has happening in syria has alienated there are key sunni population even more so i think what happened last week which sparked all of this was a very small event just a few bodyguards of one of the sunni lawmaker whatever stood and then it sparked this huge unprecedented wave of anger along sectarian lines and today some demonstrators suggested they want to bring down the government i coring the slogan and popular votes that are completed elsewhere in the our world our we're likely to see the arab spring reaches rock. there are attempts and i think it is a different case because the same parties including iraq coalition wordless in the. politicians who whose bodyguards were arrested

belongs to these are partners in the government so they are. iraqi government is not just shia government or a government run by mr maliki they are growing very strong partner that you see prime minister is from and there are clear. and many of the ministers like mr elise . who is at rest of his bodyguard started this entire episode of controversy is with an iraqi and they are sunni so i don't think you know it's very similar to other countries because that is less united there is this unity among iraqis about bringing down the government and most of their larger political parties are already participating in the government and there are. some possibilities that the iraqi political process entirely might collapse if

there were more violence by iraq iraq's prime minister cannot be called a particularly pro-american leader given the country's vast oil riches just how interested might washington and its allies been having another more friendly government in iraq. the u.s. is definitely very disappointed in the fact that they lost most of their allies in iraq the u.s. invaded the country decades ago hoping that they will instance a pro-american regime is ended up with a government that is not very friendly to the u.s. interests and that the government as i was mentioning is on the verge of collapse there are president is absent now because of his health sunni's are withdrawing from the government and there is a general wave of anger against the government so things are not good at all but i

don't think that moving in in a place where there would be a lot of spring in iraq i think there would be more all the violence and conflict and more death and sorry i just have to interrupt you right gerard araud can merican blogger and political analyst thank you very much indeed russia is edging the syrian government to actually a statement that it's ready to talk to opponents speaking to journalists foreign minister sergey lavrov outlined the russian view on how the conflict should be resolved. even though. we actively encourage the syrian leadership to make as concrete as possible is declared readiness for dialog with the opposition you also asking when will the international community make up their minds that bashar assad should go with all due respect to the international community is the syrian people who should make that decision the international community should not be instigating one of the sides to continue bloodshed or set any preconditions they should instead

encourage all the fighting sides to follow the geneva statements which set conditions for the syrians themselves getting all political ethnic and religious groups to agree on which kind of state they want to live in. lover of also did criticize the deeper law terms of serious key opposition groups by the west to make any concessions in the civil standoff but history is that russia is ready to hold talks with the group and the push for a diplomatic solution to the conflict the syrian crisis has dragged on for nearly two years with reports of fresh blanchard on an almost daily basis on his correspondence but as close as they could to their real stories of violence tearing the country apart and that's where focusing on today in our series of events that shaped twenty twelve.

it became fairly apparent after a massive regional arab spring and in the wake of that the next contact of a pro-democracy movement and a revolution or civil war was out of. but

the reality of death and the law is most interesting interaction for me with our side happened before and after the interview obviously and that's often the case. i ask him if he's afraid. said no. no i'm not afraid that's a moment when the you believe the person or not and the only reason you know if he's right or wrong is intuition or i think syria is becoming the next iraq it's a country that is totally. wired and don't surprise or shock anybody and like in the case of for iraq all this harm was done to syria with the substantial help of the outsiders on the guise of democratic and.

crosstalk with the two of us coming up in just a few minutes. it's perched atop a jog under view from the kremlin stretches all i can see. for a city to siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance i bear in railway but the a spiritual center. was just eat. things like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of orthodox worshippers implicity water to commemorate the baptism of jesus. i.

was there when you pull up our border it doesn't matter if it's minus thirty it's a siberian tradition i do it myself every year for everyone to overcome their worst fears it is desirable to take the plunge. but that's a picture postcard church is the story of a city built by opportunist explorers political exiles and crafty fur traders in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslims. surrounded by enemies to ball scores to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic hub siberian fire was the oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the location head of the says for the russians are. to moscow's one of the most popular places to send political dissent is not any people were exiled that once

a giant bell that was used to incite riots was supposed to set a three hundred ten. the russian heiress across who led a revolt against an eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists worse than hair and drove there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia. but the city also serves up some bit of irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution this is the office where the tsar nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here they led a fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or gartside themselves leading this ordinary normal countryside lifestyle they even had thoughts of escape but within the year bizarre and his family would be dead.

never again its political significance but the streets will always echo with a glorious past and will likely provide their livelihood first inhabitants in the future. leave me. alone welcome to crossfire camp you know about the rise and fall of civilizations for over a century there have been predictions of western decline given the global financial crisis that started in two thousand and eight and the stagnation in much of the western world are some of those predictions coming true and if the west is in decline what will take its place.